media scandal continues to unfold in greece as yet another reporter is put away for threat when the government than alarming exposé of the country's disintegrating economy. up to a decade behind bars is not the price people could pay for wearing a monster in demonstrations in canada the parliament approves a controversial bill. while third party candidates for the u.s. presidency advocated defense cuts over spending on the military stays out of the duel between the. corporate back front runners. a new video emerges reportedly showing the brutal killings of syrian soldiers by militias this comes as washington wants a major overhaul of syria's opposition saying it will seek new rebel leaders out of

those actually fighting from the ground. there watching r t live from moscow with me to ban would say good to have you with us this morning a great journalist who threatened to reveal a high profile government fraud remains in custody speedo's cuts us but he was arrested on wednesday after he promised to expose live on t.v. alarming facts reportedly connected to the country's painful bailout deal this comes after another reporter stood trial on thursday for publishing a list of alleged top tax evaders meanwhile the country faced a major media strike triggered a bias and spend should of two state t.v. presenters criticizing a minister on a gaap still from the free press magazine believes the greek government would go to any extent to stop the information from going public. journalists in greece are

absolutely doing their job the country is in crisis the people need to know what's going on and their role is i am telling them what these are journalists are doing is trying to reveal to the public the very most important information relating to the economic crisis they expose a relate to the real crisis in greece and in other countries too which is tax avoidance and the export of capital only taking money out of the country which is what happened in the greek economy the government is in absolute crisis in greece the economy is tottering the most terrible social deprivation it's a terrible time for greek people and they're being very badly treated not just by a degree of by the whole european financial mismanagement they need to know the truth i don't see how they can get away with prosecuting these people it's actually going to be a very interesting test of freedom in greece. keeping your identity private during demonstrations has become a punishable offense in canada and most activists could now face up to ten years

behind bars authorities say the nation is a tackling the growing threat of violence and vandalism canada told massive student protest against two wishing rights earlier this year in exile hundreds being arrested canadian radio reports and michael florian says the new role will criminalize anti government demonstrations nationwide. this law basically what it does is that it will criminalize people who are in protests if the police of that city deem the protest to be an unlawful assembly now of course that varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction terms of how easy it is for the police force to say this is an unlawful assembly or it is a lawful assembly but let's look at montreal for example and across go back in any major city back where if you were fifty people or more in a in a peaceful protest a nonviolent protest that could be depended on unlawful assembly if you have an opera censored your itinerary and the directions of according to your protest

routes to the police force of them in a spot in come back before the protest is started and that's what's causing a lot of controversy because people are saying you know it's my inherent right to go out and express our opinions me able to go to the streets and take to the streets in a peaceful manner when i was covering as a reporter the major i guess you protests were happening in downtown one show because of the students protests that were happening there basically what i saw from my perspective that i was even attacked for basically just filming police for doing my job for being able to report on the story what what's happening here and i mean to some extent people said to me well you know you have understand they're only doing their job that on a certain extent i think. coming up later this hour forking out to go green look at how burning drive for nuclear shutdown and the accompanying shift towards renewable energy is delivering a painful close to family budget. class or the business partner of russia's former

richest man jailed tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky and maybe leaving his prison cell next july as off course reduce his sentence quite really years. barack obama and mitt romney are throwing everything they have god into a last ditch effort to woo voters in undecided states in the closing days of the pre-election dual promises of change and economic recovery are taking center stage and also ironically the most expensive presidential race in u.s. history but talk about any cuts to the mess of defense spending is absent from the front lines of the campaign with both candidates expected to keep their mighty military missions rolling as marina but now i reports. our military spending has gone up every single year that i've been in office we spend more on our military than the next ten countries combined china russia france united kingdom you name it america has

a responsibility and the privilege of helping defend freedom we've got to strengthen our military long term i will not cut our military budget in a post nine eleven america the pentagon's budget has grown more than forty percent averaging half a trillion dollars per year critics say a new party or presidents in the white house won't change the policies firmly cemented in washington yeah ladies that both of these men are very much continuations of the military industrial complex is domination of our political system in our democracy so when they keep talking about how they're going to supply jobs increasingly that's where the jobs come from. both foreign interventions and also this giant so-called homeland security department price of defending the homeland critics say continues to come at a grave cost to civil liberties this war on terror you know lacks lead that we discussed before the n.b.a. now you have the military might police you know cracking down on protesters now you

have this massive empire and in order to sustain there you need to have the peacekeepers. to make sure that the war machine reaches our earlier this year the former cia director applauded president obama for closely following the controversial policies of his part assessor and despite a campaign that was based upon a very powerful promise of transparency president obama and again in my view quite correctly has used the state secrets argument. in a variety of courts as much as president bush more than six and a half thousand u.s. soldiers have been killed fighting america's post nine eleven wars and nearly fifty thousand have been wounded in action are reported quarter million americans who have fought in iraq or afghanistan have been diagnosed with mental health injuries from combat service even as america's wars wind down the suicide rate among troops

has surged to a thirty year high according to the pentagon this year's total may reach as many as one suicide per day it's not just what happens in war when the deaths and begin juries or what happens afterwards you know you have these there are basically barrels coming home you know to two broken communities and families with broken bodies and moms and there's in terms of society is that something the wants you know do we want as a society where we have important members of our communities you know coming coming home with problems and that's the reality of war in the two thousand and twelve fiscal year payers funded a u.s. defense budget of five hundred forty four billion dollars it's estimated that some could provide two million military veterans with free medical care for thirty five

years talking about national defense has been almost sacrosanct you know sort of like the defense department wants something to question that is to question. something that is unquestionable and that has meant that the largest part of the u.s. government spending has been beyond analysis beyond public scrutiny in four days americans will elect a leader for the next four years regardless of who wins the legacy of war cemented under the past two u.s. presidents indicate that the world's largest. offense budget will continue ballooning this causing many to ask if hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent to increase security or even road stability the forty three are going up for nigh on r.t. . and while obama and romney pledged to pull the us out of the deep dish of debt some observers say overspending on defense is the main reason the economy ended up

going down under in the first place there's no more important issue in america today than i have which we are spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean our total is more than the top sixteen other nations in the world and so as most americans know that this is just wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this is sort of violence around the world you know what happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops them before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt. as a presidential frontrunner as a shy away from slashing the defense a budget the alternative names on the ballot have taken the opposite approach but

third party candidates are given no chance to deliver their message in the mainstream media so r t is helping break a bad blockade you can watch the final round of live debates between the green parties a gentle same in libertarian gary johnson on monday. right on. we should not iraq we need to cut to bring troops home we should end the war in afghanistan. for sixty percent. of our. life where he'll be treated as. a brutal scene has occurred in the north of syria way twenty eight soldiers have been killed at the hands of rebels the video which can be independent the very five

supposedly shows rebels be raiding the soldiers as they lay on the ground and called assets dogs before multiple rounds fired into their bodies the incident occurred close to a government troops have been clashing with rebel militias trying to seize a key on the supply route this comes as one of the rebels the main backers america announced a major opposition shake up with plans to hand to greater influence to militants on the frontline shia political analyst said things the move could be a prologue to military intervention. what's happened in recent months as the offensive from the syrian military as it has developed what we've seen is that they have no real backing on the ground that is to say the manufactured opposition and so the united states in their imperialist project of destroy the independent nation of syria has to find another way and so a shake up of the opposition with nucor unquote leaders emerging this is the u.s.

strategy we have syrian opposition the manufactured opposition i should say has been riddled with al-qaeda and other forms of extremist many of them imported from the imperialist war against libya directly into syria the reality is they're arming the opposition. they're arming the extremists because they want chaos in syria that is the only way to get military intervention and to move forward with the imperialist project we have to remember that the end of the us adventure in syria ending in defeat i should say would be the end of us hegemony in the middle east if they're only be able to continue their march from syria that means their attempt to destroy iran is unlikely to you hold that that means that their stranglehold over the persian gulf and the oil resources is weakening so they're putting all their cards on the table and sort of putting all their chips on the bought when it comes to syria. now it's time to right now for you the us ones in israel that an attack on the run would compromise washington's manuals in the region. and to politically

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interviewers intriguing story for you. to find out more visit our big don't teach dot com. you're watching archie gets to have you with us russian business them business men blood taught me about death has had his prison term slashed by three yes he was put behind bars together with his partner russia's former richest man made. scheme for the involvement in the infamous yukos scandal it means he may walk free next july to sean thomas has the details. his sentence was reduced from thirteen years to ten years by a local court and let me take you a little bit back through it to get to where we were today in two thousand and five both men were convicted of tax evasion and then they were retried in two thousand

and ten and then convicted of stealing oil from their company now last year dimitri medvedev who was then president introduced legislation to soften white collar crimes specifically favoring financial penalties as opposed to criminal sentences and therefore decriminalizing the more white collar crimes basically saying that these were not violent offenders and they shouldn't be treated as such so they would be financially punished instead now this set the course if you will for the decision of this lessening of this sentence the lawyers have said that this is the closest thing that they can get to a humane sentence and they do not plan to appeal this decision and just putting it into perspective has actually been in custody for ten years now he's serving his time here which means that he will be released in july two thousand and thirteen so this coming summer it's possible that. we'll be free. germany

feeling the pinch of from soaring electricity bills padded by billions of jack to have to rid the country of nuclear energy security and environment issues behind the bed seemed to be perfectly valid but out of all reports. cases could hit germans haunt. it was a resoundingly no to nuclear from the german chancellor if you will abandon nuclear power completely step by step until the end of twenty twenty two as a country within that we can become pioneers on the way to create an age of renewable energy the two thousand and eleven meltdown at the fukushima power plant in japan the worst atomic energy disaster since chernobyl is the key motivation for rushing through nuclear decommissioning is a security concerns are very strong this is the main factor in the decision to begin reduction of nuclear energy in germany atomic energy accounted for just under eighteen percent of german electricity in two thousand and eleven can renewable

take up the slack government figures show that for every wind farm bill to generate three thousand megawatts the amount needed to power three million homes the only expected to deliver one hundred megawatts to the national grid in reality though over the last ten years they've only been getting around half of that slightly over sixteen percent the original three thousand which is force germany back into the arms of fossil fuel with nuclear power taken off the table by angle of merkel germany is building a new fleet of coal fired power stations this one it's a cologne opened its doors an ogress of this year and it's up to these new power stations to provide germany with the electricity it's crying out for electricity prices are key for the international competitiveness of the non-ferrous metals industry if the electricity price increases power once and total cost increase in a one hundred eighty millions per year industry is already feeling the pinch the

steel workers in north rhine-westphalia went on strike to try and save their mill from closure it didn't work they may not be the only ones germany is importing more and more electricity from abroad which will mean higher prices some plants have closed in germany. to close the companies off thinking to relocate their new investments to countries abroad germany's neighbors don't share in safety concerns over nuclear power france uses atomic energy to generate the first majority of its electricity there is to the east poland is set to invest over fourteen and a half billion euros the construction of eight new nuclear power plants one of them around one hundred kilometers from the german city of dresden peter all over forty . more world news of this hour heavily armed gunmen have encircled the livia's column and building angry at the approval of the new cabinet they also

blocked surrounding routes with armed pickup trucks gunmen mostly made up of former rebels are protesting against a lineup of new ministers slamming some members for the alleged links to the deposed the regime of colonel gadhafi libya's government show which of voted on the cabinet on wednesday has been struggling to bring the war torn country under control since last year's revolution. kuwaiti authorities have freed a prominent opposition figure on bail the former m.p.'s for day arrest over charges he insults of the nation's western backed government and cited a wave angry demos which were all brutally suppressed by police officials also respondents with a warning they would tip top of the crackdown on dissent should more protests occur tensions in kuwait away united by a proposed changes to the electoral law which critics say is aimed at shattering

the opposition's chances in the next month's parliamentary poll. in the u.k. euroscepticism has proved a stronger than the party line for some conservative backbenchers the tory rebels racial cross the floor to varied with the opposition labor party to demand a con to the cash flow to brussels. r.t. sarah for it has the details from london well the most significant defeat for the government since they came to power we saw two m.p.'s standing alongside labor calling for a real term cuts to the budget now those negotiations all that budget against take place in brussels later on this month the prime minister david cameron had been calling on his party to stand with him in his approach to these negotiations that he being talking about a rise in line with inflation which would have been at about eighty percent the government today very much trying to downplay that defeat saying of kools they're

going to be fighting for this person's best interest but clearly many members of their own policy feeling that the best wasn't good enough when it was the significant that the big three tory m.p. that has left the government looking increasingly disconnect is not just for their own policy good from the british public as well certainly when it comes to this question the views now we heard the prime minister nick clegg speaking today in a keynote speech talking in defense of britain's role within the e.u. he spoke about the arguments the repatch ration of powers from the as a full promise wrapped in a union jack one m.p. describing it last like in the very passionate debate that we saw taking place in the house of commons as alice in wonderland economics and that's a very much a sense you get from a lot of people that is disconnected from reality it was people who are tightening their belts to be contributing even more money to the the decision made last night

isn't going to be binding on the government but it's certainly going to put prime minister david cameron under a fair amount of pressure when he joins that negotiating table we don't know of course what the outcome of these negotiations will be but one thing is absolutely certain that this. very heated debate an argument about britain's role within the is looking set to run and run. r.t. spoke to one of the conservative m.p.'s who opposed the prime minister in the vote mark pressured her believes the e.u. is inefficient and that britain's us should get the chance to vote on whether to remain in the club when inflation increase on the budget would equate to an extra three hundred million pounds a year and that would increase over the multi annual budget up to two thousand and twenty in a time when u.k. families are having to make very difficult often painful decisions with their household budgets local councils doing the same and even our own national

government here in the u.k. i think it is absolutely right to expect the european union to try and trim some of its very large budget a budget that will increase to around one trillion euros up to two thousand and twenty years so there is certainly room for efficiency savings this is an entity which has failed to have its own account signed off for the last seventeen years it's i think a wasteful inefficient entity might think it's politically smart for the government and i'm a member of the governing party to actually be in touch with public opinion majority people in the united kingdom have never had a say on our relationship with europe we need a referendum this side of the general election in this parliament and let democracy reign and let the british people have their voice heard a new internet law has come into effect in russia allowing the government to close websites potentially harmful to children but some bloggers and human rights activists are already mulling over whether its intentions are purely about

protecting kids or paving the way for online censorship you got a piece going up reports. well an online registry which is going to contain the list of banned websites is already operating the purpose of this law is to protect children from potentially harmful information on the internet and the way it works is that authorities monitor the web and if you find things like instructions how to consume drugs or make weapons or propaganda of suicide or force john pornography then this website is recommended to take this information down if it doesn't then its host is recommended to do the same and if the info still stays online then the website is put on this list in this registry is blocked and remains blocked until the from asian is taken down the reaction on this law has been mixed while there are those who believe that it could actually help protect children or old but also those who believe that it will be used to censor the internet but needless to say similar child protection laws are not something which was created here in russia

it's a widespread practice all over the world that for a look at europe then there is some very tough legislation especially in some scandinavian countries with punishments going all the way up to jail sentences if we look at the united states then there is the controversial law which prohibits children under thirteen from using search engines like google and g. mail so this has been causing quite a lot of criticism as well well here in russia we're talking about temporary measures because like i said these blocked websites could be unblocked if the information is taken down there's also always the possibility of taking these cases to course which could also work to the band set by the authorities. in a couple of minutes a large lister gives her insights and global financial headlines station r.t. .

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